Rebus Quotes

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. (Gregory David Roberts)
Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that. View quote
Ian Rankin
All treaties between nations are valid only with the reservation clause: rebus sic stantibus. They do not pledge a State for ever. View quote
Heinrich von Treitschke
Ru-h-ru-h-ru-h-h-h-h. Pooh-ooh-ooh. Tick-tick-tick-tick. Pre. R-r-r-r-r-uh-h. Huh! Bang. Su-su-su-ur. Booh-a-ah. R-r-r-r. Pooh...multitude of sounds, all mixed together. Motorcars, buses, carts, carriages, people, lamp-posts, trees.. all mixed together; in front of cafés, shops, offices, posters, shop windows: multitude of things. Motion and standstills: different movement. Movement in space and movement in time. Multitude of images and all sorts of ideas. Images are veiled truths. All different truths form what is true. What is individual does not display all in a single image.... Ru-ru-ru-u-u. Pre. Images are boundaries. Multitude of images and all sorts of boundaries. Elimination of images and boundaries through all sorts of images. Boundary clouds what is true. Rebus: where is what is true? Boundaries are just as relative as images, as time and space. View quote
Piet Mondrian
The Count is so bold, Usher, to ask you this once That before all the gentry you deign to announce The Count's seising of castle, of homestead, of village, Of all fields sown, lands fallow, and land under tillage, Cum gravibus, forestis, and cum bounderibus, Peasantibus, bailivis, et omnibus rebus, Et quibusdam aliis. View quote
Pan Tadeusz
But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus (12.32-33) View quote
James Joyce